Jane Eyre (Bantam Classics)

ISBN: 0553211404

Author: Bronte, Charlotte

Condition: New

Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American ReadInitially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyreerupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the worlds most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work of great genius. Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Bronts masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the worlds most beloved novels.